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Comment by teddyh

The article talks about reading and parsing CSV data of unknown variants, but then skips to the solution being using a different format altogether. But you can only switch to a different format if you are producing data, not if you are reading it!

And if you are in control of producing data, just produce strict RFC 4180-compliant CSV data and everybody will be able to read it just fine. There is no need to make your reader’s lives difficult by using yet another non-standard data format.

See also: <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39679753>

parent teddyh 2 years ago

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